Abstract

We provide the theoretical justification of bootstrapping stationary invertible echelon vector autoregressive moving-average (VARMA) models using linear methods. The asymptotic validity of the bootstrap is established with strong white noise under parametric and nonparametric assumptions. Our methods are practical and useful for building reliable simulation-based inference and forecasting without implementing nonlinear estimation techniques such as ML which is usually burdensome, time demanding or impractical, particularly in big or highly persistent systems. The relevance of our procedures is more pronounced in the context of dynamic simulation-based techniques such as maximized Monte Carlo (MMC) tests [see Dufour J-M. Monte Carlo tests with nuisance parameters: a general approach to finite-sample inference and nonstandard asymptotics in econometrics. J Econom. 2006;133(2):443–477 and Dufour J-M, Jouini T. Finite-sample simulation-based tests in VAR models with applications to Granger causality testing. J Econom. 2006;135(1–2):229–254 for the VAR case]. Simulation evidence shows that, compared with conventional asymptotics, our bootstrap methods have good finite-sample properties in approximating the actual distribution of the studentized echelon VARMA parameter estimates, and in providing echelon parameter confidence sets with satisfactory coverage.

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